Combination collar and hood



April 10, 1951 J. DE GRAZIA COMBINATION COLLAR AND noon 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July 23, 1948 I N V EN TOR. 5/6/95 29 6m April 10, 1951 J. DE GRAZIA COMBINATION COLLAR AND noon 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed July 25, 1948' INVENTORJ ofi/Jl) 2667/0700.

/ [/TOfi/VEY Patented Apr. 10, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT orrice 2,547,931 COMBINATION COLLAR AND noon Joseph De Grazia, Washington, D. 0. Application July 23, 1948, Serial No. 40,415

7 Claims. (01. 2-84) (Granted under the act The invention described herein, if patented, may be manufactured and used by the Government for governmental purposes without the payment to me of any. royalty thereon.

This invention relates to a collar for a raincoat or similar article of wearing apparel and has for its primary object to provide a collar which may be opened up to form an effective hood or head covering for protection against the elements and yet which may be folded to lie fiat and snugly against the body of the garment when not in use, so as to present the appearance of a conventional coat collar.

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of a combination collar and hood having certain overlapping portions and fastening means therefor so that the collar, when unfolded may be effectively set-up into the form of a hood, and when not so used may be folded into a neat collar formation and effectively secured in a normal position on the garment when so folded.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a front perspective View of the hood or unfolded collar in use;

Figure 2 is a rear perspective view in use as a hood;

Figure 3 is a rear elevation view of the collar in partly unfolded condition;

Figure 4 is a front elevational view of a garment with the novel hood in folded condition and lying in normal position as a conventional collar;

Figure 5 is an enlarged plan view of the upper portion of a garment with the novel collar elevated to show certain of the structural details;

Figure 6 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line 66 of Figure 4; and

Figure 7 is a plan view of the elementsof the hood.

As mentioned above an essential feature of the invention resides in incorporating in an outer arment a hood which may be folded into the form and position of a conventional collar, and in this connection attention is invited to Figure 4 wherein the garment I, which may be a raincoat or the like is provided with a folded hood, generally indicated by the numeral 2, and which presents the appearance of a conventional collar such as may be found on raincoats, overcoats, etc.

The specific structure of the combined collar and hood is shown in detail in Figures 1 to 3, inclusive, 5, 6, and 7, and in these figures, it will be noted that the main portion of the collar comof the article amended April 30, 192

of March 3, 1883, as

s; 370 o. G. 757) prises outer and inner arcuate collar sections 3 and 4 connected together at the points A of Figure 5; the outer section 3 being joined to the neck portion 5 of the garment by a line of stitching 6. The arcuate edges of the strips 3 and 4 are indicated by the numerals I and 8, respectively,

and to these edges is secured a substantially elliptically-shaped strip 9 as indicated by the lines of stitching Ii!-I0 in Figure 6. The elliptically-shaped strip 9 is provided with a longitudinally extending fold I I and is normally situated between the outer and inner strips 3 and 4 as clearly shown in the cross sectional view (Fig. 6). Suitable shaping of this element is provided by a pair of darts ll.

The inner strip 4 is somewhat shorter in'l ngth than the outer strip 3 and has its free edges or corners releasably-connected to the section 3 by means of buttons I2 secured to the outer strip 3 and cooperating with buttonholes I3 formed on the inner strip 4. The strip i is also provided with one part I4 of a snap fastener adapted to cooperate with a complementary portion I5 of a snap fastener secured to the back of the neck portion of the garment to aid in holding the folding hood or collar in its inoperative position. With the several parts connected in the manner just size of a normal collar and is of unitary construction so as to lie flat against the body of the arment I as heretofore mentioned depicted in Fig. 4 of the drawing.

When the collar is to be unfolded and set-up in erect position in the form of a hood the buttons I2-I2 and the snap fastener I l-I5 are released and the inner strip t raised upwardly and inverted and drawn forwardly over the head of the wearer so as to expand the folded ellipticallyshaped strip 9 to provide the top or mid-portion of the hood while the inner strip 4 forms the forward portion of the hood, and the outer strip 3, which is permanently secured to the neck portion 5 of the garment forms the back portion of the hood. To fiX the hood in this set-up condition the underside of the outer strip 3 is provided with buttons I6 adjacent its ends which cooperate with the buttonholes I3 on the inner strip 4, as clearly indicated in the Figures 1 and 2. For further aiding in supporting the hood in erected position, as well as to hold the same snugly about the wearers face and protect his throat, an extra strip of material I! is fixed to the upper front portion of the garment by a line of transverse stitching I8 and is adapted to be folded upwardly across the lower open front of the hood as shown and as clearly in Figures 1 and 2. The free edge of the strip 11, adjacent its corners, is provided with buttonholes I9 which cooperate with the buttons l2 on the underside of the upper strip 3 when the hood is in erected form. With the free edges of the several parts of the hood thus releasably-connected, it will be apparent that the hood may be securely fixed about the head of the wearer. It will also be apparent that then the hood is no longer required, the garment may be readily restored to conventional form by releasing the buttons l3 and I6, folding the elliptically-shaped strip 9 at the point ll so as to bring it between the outer and inner strips 3 and 4 and then folding the parts backwardly into position about the neck of the garment as indicated in Figure 4.

From the foregoing description and attached drawings, it will be noted that I have devised an exceedingly neat and compact construction of a combination collar and hood; that it may be readily and simply set-up into the form of a hood, and when not in use may and substantially the dimensions, of a conventional collar.

I claim:

1. A combined collar and hood comprising outer and inner arcuate strips of material forming the outer and underside of the collar, said outer arcuate strip being adapted to be stitched to the neck portion of a garment, and a substantially elliptically-shaped strip of material having its edges secured to the adjacent edges of the arcuate strips, said elliptically-shaped strip provided with a longitudinal fold line, whereby said last-named strip may be folded within the confines of the outer and inner arcuate strips.

2. In combination, a garment, a combined collar and hood comprising outer and inner arcuate strips, a line of stitching connecting the outer strip to the neck portion of the garment, and a normally folded strip of material having arcuate edges secured to the adjacent arcuate edges of said outer and inner arcuate strips.

3. In combination, a garment, a combined collar and hood comprising outer and inner arcuate strips, a line of stitching connecting the outer strip to the neck portion of the garment, a normally folded strip of material having arcuate edges secured to the adjacent arcuate edges of said outer and inner arcuate strips, and cooperating fastening means on the neck of the garment and the inner arcuate strip for releasably holding the collar in conventional position.

be folded into the form,-

4. In combination, a garment, a combined collar and hood comprising outer and inner arcuate strips, a line of stitching connecting the outer strip to the neck portion of the garment, a normally folded strip of material having arcuate edges secured to the adjacent arcuate edges of said outer and inner arcuate strips, and means for releasably connecting the ends of the outer and inner strips when the collar is in folded condition.

5. In combination, a garment, a combined collar and hood comprising outer and inner arcuate strips, a line of stitching connecting the outer strip to the neck portion of the garment, a normally folded strip of material having arcuate edges secured to the adjacent arcuate edges of said outer and inner arcuate strips, and means for releasably connecting the ends of the outer and inner strips when the collar is erected into hood form.

6. In combination, a garment, a combined collar and hood comprising outer and inner arcuate strips, a line of stitching connecting the outerv strip to the neck portion of the garment, a normally folded strip of material having arcuate edges secured to the adjacent arcuate edges of said outer and inner arcuate strips, and means for releasably connecting the ends of the outer and inner strips when the collar is in folded condition and when it is erected into hood form.

'7. In combination, a garment, a combined collar and hood comprising outer and inner arcuate strips, a line of stitching connecting the outer strip to the neck portion of the garment, a normally folded strip of material having arcuate edges secured to the adjacent arcuate edges of said outer and inner arcuate strips, a separate strip of material secured transversely of the garment on the upper front portion thereof, and means for releasably securing the ends of the last-named strip to the end of the outer arcuate strip when the hood is in its operative position.

JOSEPH DE GRAZIA.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,553,108 Reis Sept. 8, 1925 1,632 346 Nissen June 14, 1927 1,980,394 Falcon Nov. 13, 1934 2,051,437 Dorn Aug. 18, 1936 

